Rural areas face a serious mental healthcare gap, with similar rates of mental illness as urban areas but nearly double the suicide rate, fewer primary care providers, and slower workforce growth. Sixty-five percent of rural counties lack a psychiatrist, 81% lack a psychiatric nurse practitioner, and 47% lack a psychologist.
A pairing of two experimental drugs inhibits tumor growth and blocks drug-induced resistance in ovarian cancer, according to a preclinical study led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. The research reveals a promising strategy against this hard-to-treat malignancy, and more generally demonstrates a powerful new approach for the identification of effective regimens to treat genetically diverse cancers.
In a recently decided case, the Supreme Court upheld the authority of the Secretary of Health and Human Services to appoint members of the United States Preventive Services Task Force, rather than requiring presidential nomination and corresponding Senate confirmation hearings and a vote.
Republicans swiftly approved President Trump's tax cut bill last week, despite a full-court press from doctors, hospitals, and patients to beat back some of the largest healthcare cuts in American history — more than $1 trillion in all over the next decade. Lobbyists' failure to stop or even substantially modify the bill leaves concerning questions for American healthcare: Has the influence of the healthcare industry, once among the most powerful, faded in Washington? And do doctors and hospitals — sometimes proxies for patient voices in government — understand how to navigate Trump's remade Washington?
A JAMA study found that a U.S. child was 15% to 20% more likely to have a chronic condition in 2023 than a child in 2011. In particular, the prevalence of depression, anxiety, sleep apnea and obesity all increased, as did rates of autism, behavioral problems, developmental delays and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Reports of problems such as poor sleep, limited physical activity, early-onset menstruation and loneliness also rose.
A handful of leading medical organizations are suing Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over recent changes to federal COVID-19 vaccine recommendations — part of what they characterize as a larger effort to undermine trust in vaccines among the American public. The groups behind the complaint, filed on Monday in federal district court, include the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Physicians and the American Public Health Association.